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Update: Microsoft has extended the AppFabric support to April 11th 2017. The extension is only applicable for AppFabric 1.1 and not for 1.0. For more information check out their blog post. April 2nd 2016 (April 11th 2017) is proving to be an important date for Alachisoft’s product NCache. This is the date when Microsoft ends AppFabric support – essentially withdrawing…

ASP.NET View State is a client side state management mechanism, which is used to save page and control values. ASP.NET View State is a hidden field on the page as an encoded Base64 string. It is sent to client as part of every response and is returned to the server by the client as part…

Microsoft ASP.NET Output Cache provides functionality to cache rendered content of ASP.NET pages or user controls for a specified duration. This allows your ASP.NET application to serve all subsequent requests from the cache instead of re-rendering and re-execution of a page. You add the <% @OutputCache %> directive on the page to use ASP.NET Output Cache. ASP.NET…

Microsoft Azure provides a platform for ASP.NET applications in the cloud. Very often, these applications are high transaction and mission critical in nature. Therefore, it is very important that these applications are able to scale and that there are no data loss if a web server goes down at any time. ASP.NET Session State needs…

Many high traffic ASP.NET applications in Microsoft Azure are deployed over multiple Microsoft Azure regions in order to handle geographically separated traffic. In these situations, the load balancer always sends traffic to the Microsoft Azure region closest to the user for faster response time. In this scenario, you may run into a situation where you…